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...story follows the fortunes of two English families living on the Zulu veld in South Africa. The Elliots had fled scandal in England; Mrs. Ashburn had brought her family in abortive search of a fortune in cotton. They eke out a poor existence from the wilderness, contending with drought, fever, and the whims of the Zulus, Mrs. Ashburn even resorts to hatching python eggs for spare cash...
...long war against the white plague, medicine's two most useful search tools have had a grave defect. Chest X rays and the tuberculin skin test both indicate whether the patient has ever had tuberculosis, but the skin test does not show-and X rays show only imperfectly -whether the disease is still active. Last week, doctors all over the U.S. were calling New York for details of a new, simple test which indicates how active the tubercle bacilli are in the patient's system at the time the test is made...
...these proposals offers a complete answer to the financial dilemma of the universities, and administrators are still continuing their search for the elusive dollar. Tomorrow's editorial will evaluate the suggestions given so far, and discuss the long-range objectives of American higher education...
Dominating the tableau of aimlessness, decay and sterile joy is the image that gives the poem its name: the parched desert through which a wanderer struggles in search of an oasis. When he comes upon a chapel in the arid mountains, he significantly finds this symbol of faith broken and deserted-"There is the empty chapel, only the wind's home." But at the deepest point of despair, the rumble of thunder brings promise of rain to the waste land. The poem ends with the Hindu incantation, like the first shower of long-looked-for rain, shantih, shantih, shantih...
...atomic controls. He described the atom bomb as "a gadget built up in the public mind to much more than its military value," although he made no bones about it being a terrible weapon, and suggested that the present furor--particularly over the McMahon proposals--might be a similar search for "a gadget for peace." He deplored the tendency for some people "who get attention" to overplay the strength of the atom as a weapon...